The Mad Dog is refusing to be neutered by the Diamondbacks.
Chris “Mad Dog” Russo said he will not leave sports media after he promised to retire “on the spot” if the Diamondbacks won two straight games in Philadelphia to wrestle the NLCS away from the favored Phillies.
Arizona proceeded to quiet the Phillies’ bats on consecutive nights, winning 6-1 and 4-2 to advance to the World Series and leaving the famous broadcaster’s future briefly in doubt.
Russo deemed it “a throwaway line” in an interview with Howard Stern on Wednesday morning, though he has agreed to a unique form of punishment at the shock jock’s urging.
“You gotta do something so outrageous that they forget about the fact that you said you were gonna retire over a baseball game,” Stern said, as transcribed by Awful Announcing. “What were you thinking though, saying you’re gonna retire if the Diamondbacks win, that’s crazy!”
“How bout this. You come on my show, I’ll come into Manhattan for this, we put you in a bikini and you walk down the street with a sign that says, ‘I’m a d—-e.’ If you do that … it will make all the media and everyone say, ‘Wow, this guy was standup, he took it, obviously he couldn’t retire, but he was humiliated.’”
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